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The waterpark at Traverse City’s Great Wolf Lodge “NO, WE’RE NOT LOST!” HEADING NORTH TO TRAVERSE CITY FOR SPRING BREAK By MIKE NORTON TRAVERSE CITY, MI – Every year, millions of Americans travel south on spring break in search of warm weather and sunny beaches. Not Meranda Lamoreaux. She and her entire 20-member family are heading in the opposite direction – to the resort town of Traverse City on Michigan’s northwestern shore. All three generations of the family will be spending their April break splashing and socializing at the local Great Wolf Lodge. “We’ve done this several times already,” says Lamoreaux, whose branch of the family lives in the southern part of the state, near Grand Rapids. “It’s a great place where we can all be together — and since there are a lot of different things for everybody to do, nobody gets bored.” They’re not alone, either. Though the overwhelming majority of spring break vacationers continue to brave crowded airports and clogged highways on their way south, a growing number are looking northward. In summer resorts like Traverse City, whose beaches and golf courses will still be shaking off the chill of winter, they find a quieter, less congested holiday experience. Springtime here is relaxed and easygoing, they say; accommodations are plentiful, and the locals appear genuinely glad to see some fresh new faces. And since it’s still the...
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